Walt Whitman - Top 10 Quotes

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Walt Whitman American poet (1819-1892)

#1

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

#2

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

#3

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

#4

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

#5

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

#6

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

#7

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

#8

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

#9

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

#10

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

About: Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

Born: 31 May 1819, West Hills, New York, United States

Died: 26 March 1892, Camden, New Jersey, United States

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

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